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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a special issue on supply chains and the enterprise. Design/methodology/approach – Introductory review and brief description of research papers in this issue. Findings – To demonstrate the growing complexity and the multiple factors...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to argue that a number of organisations focused their efforts on developing sophisticated supply chains such that their managerial focus became myopic, and many lost sight of their markets and their customers, missing the fact that the customers,...

Purpose – The purpose of this conceptual paper is to attempt to answer the related questions of how and why supply chain partners are chosen. Research objectives are to understand how and why collaborative partners are chosen, by learning the actual decision‐making processes and key factors...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to take an emergent process theory perspective and model the supply chain partnering process as a series of four linked models that correspond to the phases of the partnership lifecycle, from initiation to maturity/termination, and discuss the...